Re: Two new drafts: Multipart/Interleaved and Application /BatchBeep

Scott:

1) It is NOT for IPP clients
2) It IS intended to help the printing of images on printers with little buffer
space
3) It IS for clients that do not have "server" functionality.  The client opens
the connection, pushes the content and is done.

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Scott Lawrence <slawrence%virata.com@interlock.lexmark.com> on 04/17/2001
03:05:29 PM

To:   discuss%apps.ietf.org@interlock.lexmark.com
cc:    (bcc: Don Wright/Lex/Lexmark)
Subject:  Re: Two new drafts: Multipart/Interleaved and Application /BatchBeep



don@lexmark.com wrote:


> Just as a bit of background, the purpose, especially of mulitpart/interleaved,
> was for environments (not IPP) where the client CANNOT/DOES NOT have the
> resources necessary to support a server (e.g. Cell Phone) and this therefore
> does a BETTER (but not foolproof) job of putting the resources in  "proximity"
> to where it is reference (think printing something like XHTML with images.)

I don't see how this packaging issue saves resources in the IPP
client - it has to muster all the components anyway to send them,
regardless of what order they are sent in.  Indeed, it would be
easier for the sender if they were all just sent sequentially
without the interleaving.  The only motivation I could see for the
interleaving was solving the problem of not having buffer space in
the receiver to buffer the entire composite object.  Perhaps I
misunderstood...


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Received on Tuesday, 17 April 2001 15:13:34 UTC